Publications related to A Study of the Acceptability of a Web 2.0 Application by Higher-education Students undertaking Collaborative Laboratory Activities

Temporal Pathways to Learning: How Learning Emerges in an Open-ended Collaborative Activity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mortadha Abderrahim, Jauwairia Nasir, Aditi Kothiyal

The learning process depends on the nature of the learning environment, particularly in the case of open-ended learning environments, where the learning process is considered to be non-linear. In this paper, we report on the findings of employing a multimo ...

2022

Optimal recovery of unsecured debt via interpretable reinforcement learning

Thomas Alois Weber, Michael Mark, Huanxi Liu

This paper addresses the issue of interpretability and auditability of reinforcement-learning agents employed in the recovery of unsecured consumer debt. To this end, we develop a deterministic policy-gradient method that allows for a natural integration o ...

2022

Lifelong Machine Learning with Data Efficiency and Knowledge Retention

Fei Mi

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become de facto tools in many real-life applications to offer a wide range of benefits for individuals and our society. A classic ML model is typically trained with a large-scale static dataset in ...

EPFL2021

Learning the Exciton Properties of Azo-dyes

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Alberto Fabrizio, Sergio Vela Llausi, Ksenia Briling

The ab initio determination of electronic excited state (ES) properties is the cornerstone of theoretical photochemistry. Yet, traditional ES methods become impractical when applied to fairly large molecules, or when used on thousands of systems. Machine l ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Age-Dependent Statistical Learning Trajectories Reveal Differences in Information Weighting

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Statistical learning (SL) is the ability to generate predictions based on probabilistic dependencies in the environment, an ability that is present throughout life. The effect of aging on SL is still unclear. Here, we explore statistical learning in health ...

AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC2020

Monitoring Collaborative Learning Activities: Exploring the Differential Value of Collaborative Flow Patterns for Learning Analytics

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Collaborative learning flow patterns (CLFPs) encode solutions to recurrent pedagogical problems, which have been successfully applied to the design of learning experiences. However, the pedagogical knowledge encoded in these patterns has seldom been exploi ...

2018

An integrated way of using a tangible user interface in a classroom

Sébastien Cuendet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey

Despite many years of research in CSCL, computers are still scarcely used in classrooms today. One reason for this is that the constraints of the classroom environment are neglected by designers. In this contribution, we present a CSCL environment designed ...

2015

Expanding Eye-Tracking Methods to Explain the Socio-Cognitive Effects of Shared Annotations

Andrea Mazzei

Social technologies are leading to transformations in education, by empowering the way learners connect to each other, by introducing new means for teaching and learning and by reshaping the way knowledge is delivered. Annotating texts is a learning strate ...

EPFL2013

Learning Analytics Dashboard Applications

Sten Govaerts

This article introduces learning analytics dashboards that visualize learning traces for learners and teachers. We present a conceptual framework that helps to analyze learning analytics applications for these kinds of users. We then present our own work i ...

Sage Publications Inc2013

Putting the user into the active learning loop: towards realistic but efficient photointerpretation

Devis Tuia

In recent years, several studies have been published about the smart definition of training set using active learning algorithms. However, none of these works consider the contradiction between the active learning methods, which rank the pixels according t ...

Ieee2012

The 3A Interaction Model and Relation-Based Recommender System : Adopting Social Media Paradigms in Designing Personal Learning Environments

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We live in a rapidly changing digital world marked by technological advances, and fraught with online information constantly growing thanks to the Internet revolution and the online social applications in particular. Formal learning acquired in traditional ...

EPFL2010

Using Social Software for Teamwork and Collaborative Project Management in Higher Education

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Na Li

This paper discusses the potential role of social software in supporting teamwork and collaborative project management in higher education. Based on the fact that social software has been widely spread among young students nowadays, using it for collaborat ...

Springer2010

The 3A interaction model: towards bridging the gap between formal and informal learning

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Na Li

This paper discusses the adoption of bottom-up social software tools in formal learning environments. This is believed to enhance the learning experience of today’s young generation characterized by being technology savvy and keen on social networking. As ...

IEEE Computer Society2010

Temporal patterning of 'unlearnable' stimuli types does not always enable learning

Michael Herzog, Carl Kristoffer Aberg

Presenting two or more stimulus types randomly interleaved, so-called roving stimuli, disrupts perceptual learning in many paradigms. It was recently reported that learning with disrupting stimuli types is possible when stimuli are presented in an alternat ...

2009

Learning Objectives and Uncertainty Resolution: An Examination of the Structure of Corporate Venture Capital Relationships

Anu Wadhwa

The search for external knowledge must necessarily be accompanied by effective organizational learning. The effectiveness of learning is dependent on quite dissimilar factors based on whether the learning objective is explorative or exploitative. Moreover, ...

2005